Irish Nationalist Revolutionary. A poet and writer, he was a signatory to the Proclamation of the Republic. Active during the Easter 1916 rising, he was one of fourteen leaders of the uprising to be court-martialed and executed by firing squad in Kilmainham Jail (a further 75 were condemned but reprieved).

What is it but nightfall?No, no not night but death.Was it needless death after all?...To know they dreamed and are dead...He might have won fame in the end,So sensitive his nature,So daring and sweet his thought.By WB Yeats "Easter, 1916"We owe you, Jos...(Read more)-
Patsy Carnahan RyanAdded: May. 4, 2015